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Ten emerging Dutch designers to look out for
On the eve of Dutch Design Week, 10 former recipients of the Dutch Design Awards have nominated 10 rising stars making waves across the Netherlands. This year, the Dutch Design Awards (DDA) – an annual competition that celebrates the best of recent Dutch design – asked 10 former recipients of the awards to nominate an
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Arne Jacobsen "dared to work with modern materials" for Egg chair
Continuing our mid-century modernism series, we take a look at the iconic Egg chair, which was designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the former SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Characterised by an oval, upholstered main body supported by a steel insert and a four-pronged aluminium tilt and swivel base, the Egg has
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/18/arne-jacobsen-egg-chair-fritz-hansen-mid-century-modern/
Impulse wall light by Modular Lighting Instruments
Dezeen Showroom: Belgian lighting design brand Modular Lighting Instruments and designer Maarten De Ceulaer have released a wall lamp that casts a gradient of geometric-shaped light across walls. The Impulse wall light comes in diamond and circular shapes, which emit striking washes of light that correspond to the lamp's shape. "I wanted the shape of
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/18/impulse-wall-light-modular-lighting-instruments-dezeen-showroom/
Dezeen Agenda features a "cracked open" apartment block by MAD Architects
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a mirrored apartment block in Colorado by MAD Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Architecture studio MAD Architects has completed a residential block in Denver, Colorado, named One River North. The building's main facade was "cracked open" with a large, canyon-like opening, inspired by the
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/17/mad-denver-apartments-agenda/
Studio Gang wraps hotel in perforated facade informed by Aspen trees
Architecture practice Studio Gang has completed the Populus hotel in Denver, which the studio claims is the "first carbon-positive hotel" in the US. Located in downtown Denver, the 13-storey hotel has a distinct facade with elliptical windows of varying sizes, designed to reflect the "Aspen eyes" of Colorado's native Aspen tree, also known as Populus
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/17/populus-carbon-positive-hotel-denver-studio-gang/
Kabin 1 pod by Kabin
Dezeen Showroom: furniture brand Kabin has created a compact, sound-proof pod designed for open-plan offices that are modelled on first-class aircraft cabins. Surrounded by glass walls, Kabin 1 is designed to aid productivity while ensuring occupants have a visual connection to their surroundings – while the pod is primarily intended for use in commercial settings,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/17/kabin-1-pod-dezeen-showroom/
RCR Arquitectes unveils plans for "unusually narrow" skyscraper in Dubai
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes has revealed its design for the 380-metre-high Muraba Veil skyscraper in downtown Dubai, which will only be one apartment wide. Set to be built alongside Dubai's main highway and the Dubai Canal, the skyscraper will have a unique form with a wide main facade and only a 22.5-metre width.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/17/unusually-narrow-skyscraper-dubai-rcr-arquitectes/
Kashima sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset
Dezeen Showroom: the English Chesterfield is given a modern update in the Kashima sofa, a classic designed by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset. Originally created in 1976 and reissued with technical enhancements in 2023, the Kashima sofa has been dubbed the "comfortable Chesterfield" because of the way its quilted design evokes the buttoned backrest of the
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Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Architects wins Stephen Lawrence Prize 2024
A 19th-century dairy farm ruin converted into holiday accommodation by London-based studio Clementine Blakemore Architects has been awarded this year's RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize. Located in Dorset, the Wraxall Yard complex contains "highly accessible" holiday lets alongside an educational space and community space integrated with inclusive design strategies to create spaces for "people of all
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Kaldewei collaborates with e15 and Stefan Diez for oak bathroom furniture
Promotion: bathroom manufacturer Kaldewei has teamed up with industrial designer Stefan Diez for e15 to create a range of minimalist furniture and accessories described as "practical and clever". Meant to complement Kaldewei's line of glazed-titanium steel bathtubs, the furniture was designed by Munich-based Stefan Diez with furniture manufacturer e15 in a tie-up between the German
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"Modest and pioneering" Hackney council housing wins 2024 Neave Brown Award
British architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has won this year's Neave Brown Award for Housing for Chowdury Walk, a council housing development in Hackney, London. Comprised of 11 terraced houses, seven of which are available for social rent, the development was built between two existing terraces on a plot that previously used as garages. The houses,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/17/hackney-council-housing-neave-brown-award-2024/
Robert A M Stern designs pair of performance halls for Ohio State
Architecture studios Robert A M Stern Architects and DLR Group have unveiled a pair of higher education buildings for performing arts at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. New York City-based Robert A M Stern Architects (RAMSA) collaborated with architect of record and performance venue designer DLR Group to create the Timashev Family Music Building
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/robert-a-m-stern-ohio-state/
Prada and Axiom Space reveal spacesuits for next lunar landing
Fashion house Prada and aerospace company Axiom Space have revealed their design for NASA's Artemis III spacesuit, set to be worn by the first astronauts to return to the surface of the moon in over 50 years. The companies unveiled the designs for the spacesuit – named the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit –
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/prada-axiom-space-spacesuits-lunar-landing-design-news/
Seven interior design projects by students at the American University in Dubai
Dezeen School Shows: a nursery designed for children who are colourblind is featured in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the American University in Dubai. Also included is a rescue centre for stray animals as well as an exhibition around the role of the traditional Arabic robe-like dress the abaya in the fashion industry. American
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/american-university-dubai-dezeen-schoolshows/
Barnacle wall sconce by Articolo
Dezeen Showroom: Australian lighting company Articolo has collaborated with artist Emma Davies to produce the Barnacle wall sconce, which is covered in delicate shell-like forms handmade from reclaimed materials. The Barnacle wall light is the first product in Articolo's Artist Series and draws on Davies' practice of transforming everyday materials. Articolo founder and creative director Nicci
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/barnacle-wall-sconce-articolo-dezeen-showroom/
Tribute100 tiles by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Fiandre Architectural Surfaces pays homage to its classic Serie 100 collection with Tribute100, a range of tiles with metallic glazes that subtly reflect light. The Serie 100 collection was Fiandre Architectural's first to be made with a high percentage of recycled materials and featured slightly metallic surfaces, and Tribute100 continues that legacy with
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BVN tops Sydney's brutalist Sirius building with copper-pod extensions
Architecture studio BVN has retrofitted the 1970s brutalist Sirius building in Sydney, Australia, and extended it with a series of copper-clad pods. The studio renovated the distinctive, brutalist housing project located near Sydney Harbour, which was designed in 1979 by Dutch architect Tao Gofers. BVN a competition to redesign the building in 2019 following a campaign
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/bvn-sirius-building-retrofit-sydney/
Whether "teaspoons or a national bank", Arne Jacobsen designed things down to the last detail
We continue our series on mid-century modernism with a profile on Danish architect Arne Jacobson, whose ethos of total design saw him craft buildings down to the smallest details. Jacobsen once stated how "the act of creation is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank," and his broad output
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/16/teaspoons-national-bank-arne-jacobsen-mid-century-modern-design/
Ripple sofa by Askia Furniture
Dezeen Showroom: Romanian brand Askia Furniture has launched the modular Ripple sofa collection, named after its ruched edges that are designed to emulate draped fabric. Ripple is designed primarily for use in office interiors, with easily reconfigurable components to tailor to changing needs in the workplace. Its components can be used to form sofas for
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Oil spill cleanup proposal takes second place in Start Something Powerful Competition
Designer Rehan Petit has been awarded second place in Dezeen and Bentley's Start Something Powerful Competition for his proposal to cleanup oil spill using repurposed boat bumpers. The global design competition invited architects and designers to envisage innovative concepts that could have a transformative effect on people's lives over the next 100 years. Through the design
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